A TEENAGE girl squaddie was given “evil” looks by one of her boyfriends who spotted her with his rival on the night before she died, an inquest heard yesterday.

Fellow recruit Ian Atkinson – now a lance corporal – said former private Paul Wilkinson “had a face like a slapped fish” when he saw Cheryl James with her other boyfriend, Jim Carr-Minns, in the bar at Deepcut barracks, near Camberley, Surrey, in November 1995.

L/Cpl Atkinson admitted he too had a brief fling with Pte James but said they had merely kissed.

He spoke at the fresh inquest into Pte James, 18, from Llangollen, North Wales, who died from a single gunshot wound at the barracks.